Brick-machine.



No. 729,094. I

PATENTED MAY 26, 1903 D. B. PRICE. BRICK MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED JULY B, 1902. H0 MODEL.

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I). B. PRICE. BRIGK MACHINE.

APPLICATION rILD JULY a. 1902.

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D. B. PRICE. BRICK MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1902.

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UNimEn STATES DAVID BOWER PRICE, OF MOUNT UNION, PENNSYLVANIA. l

atented May 26, 1903.

PATENT OEEICE.

BRICK-MACHINE.

sPEcrFIcA'rIoN forming part of LettersI Patent No. 729,094, dated May 2e, 1903. Application ined July' e, i902. serai 10.114,805. (No man.)

more particularly to a machine for levelingV material in the molds after the molds have been filled, so as to decrease the liability ot the faces of the finished bricks being roughened and to give a smooth appearance thereto.

Other objects, as Well as the novel details of construction, will be specically describedhereinafter, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a brickmachine constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional View on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the cam for reciprocating the vibrating table.

The reference-numeral 1 designates a base formed with standards or lugs at each corner, which are designated by the reference-numeral 2. Journaled in suitable supports 3 and 4, carried by the standards, is a shaft 5, running transversely of the support and having on one end a fly or balance wheel 6, while pulleys 7 and 8 are carried by the other end of the shaft. The pulley 7 is rigidly keyed to the shaft, While the pulley S is loosely mounted thereon, so that the belt may shift from one pulley to the other to start or stop the machine without affecting the movement of the belt. Resting upon the base 1 is a vertically-m oving vibrating mold-carryin g device 9, which is substantially rectangular, in the form of a box open at its respective ends. The bottom of the leveling device is provided with a depending head or block lO, which is arranged immediately above a cam or eccentric 11, keyed on theshaft, so that the rotation of the shaft will reciprocate the moldcarrying device. On the :respective sides of device 9 are vertically-arranged grooves 12 and 13, in which are guide-standards 14'and 15 to prevent the displacement of the device during its reciprocating movement. Within the box 9 are horizontal partitions or floors 16, of which there may be any number suitable to the requirements of the trade and in accordance with the height of the box. The partition, as Well as the bottom of the leveling device, extends beyond either end of the box, and one end of each partition' is an inclined pivoted chute-board 17, carried by standards 18 and 19, fastened to one end of the basel and on which the mold-frame can be fed and deposited onto the floor and partitions of the vibrating box 9. This chute and boards 17 are adapted to accommodate themselves to the relative position of the box 9-thatis to say, when the box is at its greatest height, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, the parts will be on a horizontal plane. However, when it is dropped on the base 1 the parts will be on an inclined plane. Thus the vertical vibration of the box will cause the mold-frame 20 to be fed onto the bottom and partition of the box, each successive moldframe forcing the preceding one toward the other end of the box, to where it is guided by the longitudinally-arranged guide-battens 2l and 22 and from which it can be removed by an operator.

As the molds pass through the machine the rotation of the shaft will cause the cam to be revolved, thus raising the device 9 to its greatest height and permitting it to slip ed the cam, so that it will drop with a sudden jar upon the base l. This will cause the vmaterial within the molds to settle, filling all the parts of the mold, thus insuring a smooth surface and artistic finish, giving the effect lsimilar to whatis known as the press-brick the molds will receive suficient shaking to insure the desired result being effected.

From the foregoing it will be readily apparent that a device constructed in accordance with my invention will effectually perform IOO the Work for which it is designed and owing to the minimum number of parts can be cheaply and conveniently made.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. The combination with a base, of a vertically-moving vibrating leveling device carried by the base, and a pivoted chute carried by the machine and extending into the level- 1o ing device.

2. The combination With a base, of a vibrating leveling device carried by the base, apartition Within the leveling device the ends of which extend beyond the ends of the lev- :5 eling device,` and a pivoted chute having one end resting upon the extended end of the par: tition.

3. `In a brick-machine,the combinationwith a base, of a vibrating leveling device carried by the base, and revoluble shaft, a cam cai ried thereby and designed to actuate the leveling device, and chutes for conveying the material onto the leveling device.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID BOWER PRICE.

Witnesses:

RICHARD J. FAUST, J r., JESS. G. BELL. 

